A combined inventory routing and game theory approach to solve a real-life distribution problem

International Journal of Business Performance and Supply Chain Modelling

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 75-89

  Mateo, Manuel ^a   Aghezzaf, El Houssaine ^b   Vinyes, Pau ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Case study; Game theory; Inventory routing

Indexed keywords

EID: 84906903459     PISSN: 17589401     EISSN: 1758941X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJBPSCM.2012.044975     Document Type: Article

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